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IFE 2025: What’s hot (and cold) in drinks
IFE 2025, the UK’s leading food and drink trade show, kicked off in London on 17 March 2025, featuring more than 1,500 suppliers on the exhibitor f...
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Technology
Macro Trends
Functional Feasting
As we move past the ‘free from’ era, consumers are increasingly favouring products that do more with less, bringing flavour and fun back into funct...
Food & Drink
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Indulgence
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Health & Wellness
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Smart surfaces
Sheffield – Design studio Universal Everything has created a series of visual works that re-imagine commonplace surfaces such as technology-enabled...
Universal Everything
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Awakening Tech
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IoT
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Hear this: Mobile accessories focus on style
Hear this: Mobile accessories focus on style
Design
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USB Cables
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Smartphone Cases
Design Directions
Note: Design Studio
Note: Design Studio
Colour
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Scandinavian
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Simplicity
Micro Trends
Sub-system Apps
Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook are the online mega-systems through which we will live, shop, interact and access information. Not all brands ar...
App
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HTML
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Functionality
Big Ideas
Branding & Packaging rated almost as highly as branding in US
Branding & Packaging rated almost as highly as branding in US
Packaging
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Branding
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Functionality
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Shopping isles: Luxury showcase for British craft
Shopping isles: Luxury showcase for British craft
Craft
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Great Britain
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British Luxury
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Fashion cycle: Bike brand road tests H&M range
Fashion cycle: Bike brand road tests H&M range
Organic
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Brick Lane Bikes
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Cotton
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Two for one: Home doubles as weekend retail space
Two for one: Home doubles as weekend retail space
Slash/Slash
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Tokyo
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Light work: Lamp design presented on a plate
Light work: Lamp design presented on a plate
Glass
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Designtide Tokyo 2012
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Food Work
Big Ideas
London Festival of Architecture
This year’s London Festival of Architecture re-imagined London through the theme of The Playful City. Temporary structures and installations explor...
Transparency
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ReUNION Inn
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Lake Estates
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New age thinking: Playful twist on elderly aids
New age thinking: Playful twist on elderly aids
Lanzavecchia + Wai
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No Country For Old Men
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Together Canes
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Made in China: Coffee maker is purely tasteful
Made in China: Coffee maker is purely tasteful
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Metro model: Ikea finds a new station in life
Paris – French creative agency Ubi Bene has built a live-in installation in the Auber Metro station for furniture retailer Ikea.
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Functionality
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Ikea
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Out of the shadows: Fashion designer is on form
Out of the shadows: Fashion designer is on form
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Ravarino
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Autumn/winter
Design Directions
Fun and Functionality
Bleisure, a term coined by The Future Laboratory, describes the blurring of business and leisure. Now, as Ubiquitous Gaming Culture becomes increas...
Ubiquitous Gaming Culture
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Playbour
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Functionality
Big Ideas
Dunhill homes in on London
Dunhill homes in on London
Savile Row
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Collection
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Up beat: Product line brings coherent design to the city
Up beat: Product line brings coherent design to the city
Design
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Italy
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Bicycle
Communities
Neo Boomers
Rather than settling for pipe and slippers, the Neo Boomers are taking up the banner, mouse and rucksack, reflecting attitudes that used to be the ...
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Mortgage-free
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50+
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In the fold: Paper company publishes design guide
In the fold: Paper company publishes design guide
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Design Guide
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Fenner Paper
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